Some months ago, I proposed Decanter on the Apache Karaf Dev mailing list. Today, Apache Karaf Decanter 1.0.0 first release is now on vote. It’s the good time to do a presentation 😉 Overview Apache Karaf Decanter is…

Apache Karaf loads all the configuration from etc/*.cfg files by default, using a mix of Felix FileInstall and Felix ConfigAdmin. These files are regular properties file looking like: Some values may be critical, and so not store in…

MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) logging is an interesting feature to log contextual messages. It’s classic to want to log contextual messages in your application. For instance, we want to log the actions performed by an user (identified by…

In any integration project, testing is vital for multiple reasons: to guarantee that the integration logic matches the expectations to quickly identify some regression issues to test some special cases, like the errors for instance to validate the…

Apache JMeter is a great tool for testing, especially performance testing. It provides a lot of samplers that you can use to test your web services, web applications, etc. It also includes a couple of samplers for JMS…

Apache Syncope is an identity manager (IdM). It comes with a web console where you can manage users, attributes, roles, etc. It also comes with a REST API allowing to integrate with other applications. By default, Syncope has…

Some weeks (months ? ;)) ago, I started to work on Apache Falcon. First of all, I would like to thanks all Falcon guys: they are really awesome and do a great job (special thanks to Srikanth, Venkatesh,…

Apache Karaf, Cellar, Camel, and ActiveMQ provides a lot of information via JMX. More over, another very useful source of information is in the log files. If these two sources are very interesting, for a “real life” monitoring,…

Apache Karaf 3.0.0 is now mostly ready (I’m just polishing the documentation). In previous post, I introduced new enterprise features like JNDI, JDBC, JMS. As I said, the purpose is to provide a full flexible enterprise ready container,…